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The Assassination of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
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QueenofHearts



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

anonymous_coward wrote:
how did this become an iq bragging ground? I have a high IQ score (taken w/ an actual psychologist) but I don't like to say what it is. Also IQ doesn't change, if it is changing it's probably an error in the measuring (ie taking an online or paper test by yourself)


I too, thought it a little strange that an IQ could change/decrease. However it does. It happens in women of childbearing years and usually after a child is born. There is no proof that one has to do the the other, although with what a woman has to go through, it's no wonder.

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i guess my point is, an iq score of 156 is like statistically saying, out of a sample of 10 million people, I'm smarter than every single one of them. If your IQ is really that high great, but it's a little unbelievable.


Yes, it is true. I'm dang proud of it. It is however, not high enough to get me into MENSA. Women with brains are out there. I wasn't bragging, I was going with the above mentioned of IQs and babies.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

156 is definitely high enough to get into mensa, mine is lower but high enough for mensa. an iq of 130 or so is high enough for mensa. that's my point, 156 is extremely high.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry.

Again, this was my fault. The comments on the video clip at the other end of the link were talking about I.Q.
distracted, I posted.

I don't see my score as anything to brag about (it really isn't.) I always found it odd that it was the same as my GT score (similar to ASVAB, more of a compilation....see there I go again. Sorry)
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Unfortunately, I type like I talk, unless I'm really trying. I should probably use the edit button more.


For what it's worth, most people now believe that I.Q test (which are really just a measure of your ability to learn, not your actual knowledge level--I'm a lazy slob!) Are outdated and pretty worthless.

E.Q., habits, environment and personality are much more indicative of where you will end up in life.
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.45chel



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And good for you Queen! You should be in Mensa or that other group that is more exclusive than Mensa...I forgot their cut-off.



Awww. See, I'm behind again.
Bleh. Sad
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, so, ummmmmm,


Anyone have an opinion on whether or not Pakistan should go ahead with their election?
I thinking it's kind of pointless with a party leader assasinated and another party boycotting the election and stuff.
Or maybe it's just because Bush told Musharraf to go ahead with the elections and since Bush is a moron it only makes sense to disagree with him.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ugh, I'd really like to not think too much about Pakistan. The entire "martial law" initiated by Musharaff was pretty much the poster child for what is wrong with fundamentalist, Islamist theocracies. It pretty much seems like the citizens of Pakistan have spoken; we don't want no western freedoms. And unlike Iraq, Pakistan (like North Korea and Iran) actually has friggin' weapons of mass destruction.

But not so much oil. There's a lot to the US/Pakistan foreign relations dating back to 9/11 and Richard Clarke. But oh, seems the Bush administration has little interest in what counter-terrorism experts have to say. After all, destroying the constitution and greatly empowering the executive branch of government into unprecedented realms of secrecy is like a night at the local arcade for our great leader.

So whether or not Pakistan should go ahead with elections is a moot point; elections in Pakistan now may very well be as meaningless as elections in Iraq.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rolling Eyes I was trying to make coward happy. Jeez, Coppy.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bah, I can get into Mensa on my SAT score alone (yeah, that's right, read just read "The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs) so I sit firmly atop that and my dominance over Cash Cab questions.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked WoW. Bona Feeday jeniuses

Idea So.....Can I get smarter just by hanging around all youse guys?


Ignore me. Just jealousy shining thru the fog of stupidity. Smile



I'm gonna watch "smarter than a fifth grader" every nite now.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coppy wrote:
Bah, I can get into Mensa on my SAT score alone (yeah, that's right, read just read "The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs) so I sit firmly atop that and my dominance over Cash Cab questions.


I always wanted to read all the volumes of the encyclopedia cover to cover when I was younger.(No, Coppy, they weren't chiseled out of stone back then.) Is that sad?
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So are you saying I'm not the only person who read that book (and I can't wait to read "A Year of Living Biblically")?

Chel, so you're older than me... I've got no qualms with that! I'm simply wise beyond my years Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coppy wrote:
So are you saying I'm not the only person who read that book
No, I'm typing.

Coppy wrote:
I'm simply wise beyond my years Wink


But you're a boy(can boys even be wise?), how many years older
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, is wise-ness measurable? I think not. For it is only the truly wise who know how wise they truly are. And for that, I am truly wise. Truly.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coppy wrote:
Bah, I can get into Mensa on my SAT score alone (yeah, that's right, read just read "The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs) so I sit firmly atop that and my dominance over Cash Cab questions.


i think sats have to be pre 1974 or so. maybe you just dated yourself
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

anonymous_coward wrote:
Coppy wrote:
Bah, I can get into Mensa on my SAT score alone (yeah, that's right, read just read "The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs) so I sit firmly atop that and my dominance over Cash Cab questions.


i think sats have to be pre 1974 or so. maybe you just dated yourself


Ooo, 1974? Guess I do have to take the Mensa test... Razz
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